Candidates Tell Quotes by Ann Richards

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

— Ann Richards

I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.

— Ann Richards

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

— Ann Richards

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

— Ann Richards

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

— Ann Richards

July does not a November election make.

— Ann Richards

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's…

— Ann Richards

Cherish your friends and family as if your life depended on it. Because it does.

— Ann Richards

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse,…

— Ann Richards

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.

— Ann Richards

Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later…

— Ann Richards

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and…

— Ann Richards